VegesaurusRex

Thank you. And I'll put that book on my to-do list.

I am not hiding it. I just don't do it. What is the point of logging food just for the sake of logging food? I can understand if you are counting calories, or worried about fiber or something, but I'm not, and I don't. I think it would be a waste of time.

Thank you, I usually do well reading books others recommend. At the moment I am reading one (COMPLEXITY M. Mitchell Waldorp.) I just looked through the indices of a couple of anthro books in my library, and found nothing about the Hadza, although I remember hearing that name. How far does their diet go back? You might be…

90% of the caveman diet is leaves, bark, fruit and vegetables. For the past 30,000 years that includes processed (ground up) grains. It also included at least 100 grams of fiber per day as admitted by your leaders. So what do you eat on a typical day?

Ketosis can have negative side effects: Skin rash Headaches Muscle cramps Diarrhea Constipation Weakness Insomnia Amenorrhea The human body, from Paleolithic times to the present is used to geting 90% of its energy from plant sources, including (and even the Paleos admit this) more than 100 g of fiber per day. Ironically,…

Again, sorry to keep bringing in science, when everyone knows that only uninformed opinions count. [/quote] Then could you please read the following and comment, seeing that you are really good with science Frassetto LA, Schloetter M, Mietus-Synder M, Morris RC, Jr., Sebastian A: Metabolic and physiologic improvements from…

I should also add that the US News and World Report study I cited above gave people the opportunity to say whether or not the diet in question worked for them or did not. For the Vegetarian Diet, 18,234 people said it worked for them, 3,197 said it did not. For the Vegan Diet, 16, 054 said it worked for them, 1852 said it…

Actually, paleo has the lowest adherence rate of just about any diet. http://health.usnews.com/best-diet/best-overall-diets?page=3 It was rated tied for 24th out of 25 diets in terms of health benefits, people who felt the diet actually helped them, etc. Paleo is a fad diet that is dangerous for your health. I posted an…

No journal article is the absolute truth. The nature of empirical science is such that truth exists until proven false. The sun rises in the East until it doesn't. However, if you know of a better way to understand how things work, please let me know. Statistically valid studies top anything else I know of. Yes, your…

Now this is a very intriguing post. Since you are a researcher, why DON'T you look at the actual article? I would love to hear whatever you have to say about it. And I agree, if you want to you can fault any article. (E.g., it wasn't controlled for the number of neutrinos entering the subject's body.) I assume you are in…

The correlation/causation problem is the cause celebre of the statistically illiterate. My guess is that you had statistics 101 and that correlation/causation was probably the only thing you remembered. If you dispute what I just said, kindly point me to a study on diet, that, in your opinion does not have the…

I am sorry I have to bear in mind the people who post here so I posted the link to the Guardian. The Guardian is a Newspaper in the UK (That's England) and the newspaper reviewed the study. In the INTERNET article which I posted the link to has inside it a link to the Annals of Internal Medicine, which has the actual…

Do you know what a logical fallacy is? It's "proving" something by using irrelevant or misleading information. You can't prove humans aren't omnivores by comparing herbivores and carnivores. Where's the atherosclerosis experiments on omnivores? Wow, he found a logical fallacy that the Editor of the American Journal of…

You are 100% right, and I have said as much. I would not eat meat even if it decreased my lifespan 20 years (and at my age, that would be quite significant!) And yes, I do argue health benefits because arguing the ethics of meat to the average American would be, like you say trying to persuade Rush Limbough to become a…

Oh, yeah!!!

Interesting.

Yes, I have posted this study many times on many boards, but I have yet to hear a decent argument that there is something wrong with the study or that it doesn't show what it says is shows. There are actually hundreds of studies I could post that say the same thing, but this is the most recent large study, so I go with…

I wasn't aware that presenting scientific studies was talking down to anyone. I assume a certain level of sophistication, and if it is not there, it is not my fault. You just cannot intelligently talk about some subjects without using science.

If anyone has skin that thin, you are going to offend them no matter what you say. Don't worry about it.

OP,you are not a troll despite what this one says. People are entitled to ask questions they want answers to, without having to compartmentalize their questions to such an absurd extent that absolutely no one will be offended. As we vegans say, you can't make wine without crushing grapes.

Not trying to ruin your day.

Gosh, no. Killing and then eating the corpse is not cruelty! My God, who could ever think that!!!

This is absolutely not true. We are natural herbivores, therefore no diet that consists only of fruits and vegetables will have any definitive correlation with any chronic disease. Sorry as Dr Roberts said in his journal article, only herbivores can get arteriosclerosis.

What about the fact that you have no clue what you are talking about. Do you understand that 500 studies that show a definitive correlation are valuable studies? Do you understand that NO STUDY can ever control for every independent variable? Do you even know what an independent variable is?

**************************************** First, I guess you are truly reading-challenged. Honestly, try and read for content and understanding. Here is a quote from the abstract you referred to: "Further categorization of diets showed that, in comparison with regular meat eaters, mortality from ischemic heart disease was…

Okay, you are in the "Confusing correlation with causation" crowd. I don't know how to put this politely, but people who bring up that argument have usually only had one basic course in statistics, and have never really understood why people do longitudinal studies. I am truly not trying to offend you, but if you believe…